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Investigator: US 'outsourced' torture
(AP)
Updated: 2006-01-24 19:48
Human Rights Watch identified Romania and Poland as possible sites of secret
U.S.-run detention facilities. Both countries have denied involvement, and
Marty's report said there was no formal, irrefutable evidence of secret CIA
prisons in either country, or anywhere else in Europe.
Clandestine detention centers would violate European human rights treaties.
"On the other hand, it has been proved that individuals have been abducted,
deprived of their liberty and all rights and transported to different
destinations in Europe to be handed over to countries in which they have
suffered degrading treatment and torture," the report said.
In the report, Marty analyzed the cases of an Egyptian cleric allegedly
kidnapped in Italy and sent back to Egypt and a German captured in Macedonia and
taken to Afghanistan.
Last week, Italy's justice minister formally asked the United States to allow
Italian prosecutors to question 22 purported CIA operatives they accuse of
kidnapping the Egyptian cleric, Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, in 2003 from a Milan
street.
Prosecutors say Nasr, believed to belong to an Islamic terror group, was
taken by the CIA to a joint U.S.-Italian air base, flown to Germany and then to
Egypt, where he claims he was tortured.
Khaled al-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, is suing the CIA for
wrongful imprisonment and torture, saying he was seized in Macedonia on Dec. 31,
2003, and taken by CIA agents to Afghanistan, where he was allegedly abused
before being released in Albania in May 2004.
Citing an American lawyer, Marty also said six Bosnians were abducted by
American agents on Bosnian soil and taken to the U.S. detention center in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite a Bosnian judgment ordering their
release.
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